Hello Daniel,
The problem was not about aptitude sending bug reports, but about
aptitude retrieving bug reports relevant to packages, which it is going
to install or replace.
I am not familiar with the internal mechanisms of aptitude and the apt
commands, but someone else suggested that the bug report files were
corrupted exactly when my aptitude run tried to retrieve them - and then
they were updated and were again OK.
You may want to check how aptitude behaves when the part, which
retrieves bug reports, aborts due to bad format of those bug reports -
and provide the user with an option to proceed installation/upgrading
even if the bug reports are corrupted.
Thanks,
--- Omer
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 08:55 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:05:11AM +0200, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 08:27 +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > * Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-23 08:08]:
> > > > The packages, for which bug reports are not in gzip format, are:
> > >
> > > What do you mean by "bug epots not not in gzip format"? What do bug
> > > reports have to do with the installation; do you mean changelog
> > > perhaps?
> > >
> > > Anyway, sounds like a bug in aptitude.
> >
> > Those are the error messages, which I got in the "Retrieving bug
> > reports..." stage of package installation. I think the bug is not
> > specific to aptitude.
> > Now I tried again to run aptitude, and this time the problem did not
> > occur.
>
> The closest aptitude gets to a bug report is that if you press "B"
> while a package is selected, it runs reportbug. Are you describing a
> message that the installer displays, or maybe a package's postinstall
> script?
>
> Daniel
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